Recently, GalaxSim, a system-level EDA digital tool of Xinhuazhang, has been certified by TÜV Rheinland (hereinafter referred to as "TÜV Rheinland") ISO 26262 TCL3 functional safety tool, which can support the development and verification of chips with the highest ASIL D level of automotive safety integrity standards.
This indicates that the relevant verification tools of Xinhuazhang can help automotive chip customers achieve quality goals faster in development, and then win market opportunities in the fierce competition. This is also the continuous strengthening of Xinhuazhang's ability to verify solutions at the automotive specification level after its strategic investment in Optima Design Automation, an overseas automotive electronics solution company.
Zhao Bin (left), General Manager of Industrial Services & Information Security of TÜV Rheinland Greater China, and Xie Zhonghui (right), Chief Marketing Strategy Officer of Xinhuazhang, attended the ceremony.
In the automotive industry,iso 26262It is a globally recognized functional safety standard for electrical and electronic related functions in the automotive fieldCovering the whole life cycle of automotive productsIts process system certification and product certification are highly recognized in the automotive industry and have becomeOne of the entry thresholds for automotive-grade chip manufacturers to enter the automotive industry
ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) is defined in the ISO 26262 standard and is used to quantify the safety risk level of automotive systems. Risks are classified according to their potential severity, probability of occurrence, and avoidability: ASIL A, ASIL B, ASIL C, and ASIL D. among othersASIL D stands for the highest security requirements
TCL is the ISO 26262 standard used to evaluate the trustworthiness of development tools, considering the degree to which tool errors may affect the safety of the final product, and is divided into three levels: TCL1, TCL2 and TCL3TCL3 indicates the highest confidence requirement. When developing automotive systems with a high ASIL rating, it is often necessary to use tools with a high TCL rating
GalaxSim has passed the most stringent TCL3 certification in the certification audit at one timeIt not only proves the company's R&D and technical safety guarantee strength, but also marks its own product R&D and management system, which can fully support the development needs of various functional safety products in the automotive industry.
In order to reduce the development time and cost of products, and reduce the risk of maintenance and even recalls due to safety issues, more and more OEMs and manufacturers have begun to pay attention to functional safety issues in the automotive field. EDA tools provide data support for functional safety, in particular, the quantitative analysis required for ISO 26262 certification – which is required to assess the safety integrity level of automotive chips by intentional fault injection when designing automotive chipsThe engine is used to improve the efficiency and coverage of functional verification.
The performance of the device directly determines the cost of verification for the user
If an optimization can increase the speed by 2x, it can reduce the regression testing that would have been completed in one month to two weeks, saving the customer a lot of validation expenses and gaining a valuable window of time in the market.
Galaxsim has entered practical projects in the front-end and back-end of a number of leading domestic chip design and wafer foundry enterprises, and has been applied inFrom IP module and subsystem verification to back-end door imitation, the performance is benchmarked against the international leading level, which has been recognized by customers.
In the large-scale design application of a leading system company in the industry, we use the world's leading third-party tools as a benchmark for comparisonMore than 2Of the 50,000 regression tests, 100% of the functional tests were passedand continue to improve performance in the run-in with a large amount of application data with users.
Xie Zhonghui, chief market strategy officer of Xinhuazhang, said:
The certification of EDA tools at TCL3 level means that the development tools used in the development process have been subject to the strictest scrutiny, reducing the risk of chip development due to tool defects, so as to ensure that automotive functional safety meets the highest standards. Xinhuazhang Galaxsim can help customersSupport for ASIL D security-level chip development starts with the underlying toolingto reduce the time required for verification and certification for customers, accelerating the design cycle while providing evidence that the safety integrity level of the chip is met. ”
TÜV Rheinland Greater China Industrial Services & Information Security.
General Manager Zhao Bin said:
Our functional safety experts have rigorously reviewed the entire life cycle of the GalaxSim software tool development and carried out a detailed cross-check on its safety, reliability, and accuracy, and the results show that the GalaxSim Logic** software meets the requirements of the functional safety standard ISO 26262 TCL3 and supports the highest ASIL D chip safety standards. TÜV Rheinland will continue to work closely with Xinhuazhang to help it improve product reliability and safety, and enhance its competitive advantage in functional safety, especially in the field of automotive electronics. ”